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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29931	The wicked mans plot defeated, or, The wicked man laughed out of countenance as it was represented in a sermon preached in St. Mary Wool-Church, London, May 11, 1656, by Thomas Baker.	Baker, Thomas, Rector of St. Mary the More.; Baker, Thomas, Rector of St. Mary the More. Gods provenance asserted in another sermon preached at St. Buttolphs, Aldergate, London.; Baker, Thomas, Rector of St. Mary the More. Christs comming to judgement deciphered in a third sermon.	1656 (1656)	Wing B524; ESTC R28339	42,799	212

and Persecution if neither the enchanting sounds of whatever Musical instruments nor the Dreadful Apprehension of the Torments of the Ho●●est ●iery Furnace shall bee able so farre to work upon us as to make us to fall down before any Golden Image any Tyrannicall Nebuchadnezzar shall set up if nothing shall be able to separate us from the Love of God that is in Christ Jesus whether it be the heigth of hoped for Preferment or the depth of Dreaded Distress as it is Rom. 8. 39. but that wee steadily resolve to continue Faithful unto Death then may wee undoubtedly assure our selves that we are our Heavenly Fathers Legitimate Sonnes and so Heyres yea Co heyres with our Elder Brother Christ of the Crown of Glory And so having done with the General Notion of these Guests as Eagles we are now to take a short Glimpse of them in the more special consideration of their sweet inclination to Accord and Agreement at this their Table They keep not a Centaures Feast washing the Tables and Cates and Cups before them in bloud but celebrate rather a Love at least a Peace Feast Agreeing without any the least jar or discord during the whole time of their sitting They are gathered together Wheresoever the Carkass is there the Eagles will be gathered together We all know the old word Saevis inter se convenit Vrsis Bears though of most savage Natures can quietly Accord and Agree Yea no less then seven Devils can Peaceably cohabite in one Mary Magdalen Luk. 8. 2. Yea the Evangelical Prophets Prediction of the time of Christs comming Isa. 11. 6. you may see to bee that the Wolf shall Dwell with the Lamb the Leopard with the Kid the Lion and the Calf shall lie down together And then strange may it not seem to hear that the little Flock of Christs Lambs the small Multitude of Beleevers in the Apostles Divine Actuary Act. 4. 32. should be of one Heart and one Minde Wee in this Frantick Age of ours delivered every day of such Monsters as Africa never bred as if that curse from the God of Iacob were signally faln upon us that fell from Iacob sometimes upon his two bloudy Sons Gen. 49. 7. I will Divide them in Iacob and Scatter them in Israel and as if we saw that staffe of the Bonds of Brotherhood between Iudah and Israel Zach. 11. 7. by God for our sins too justly and conspicuously Broken nay as if that cursed Harvest of the Cadmus Teeth so long since ●own were now in a lothsome Plenty come up amongst us Domus catulos non alit uno du●s like Dogs we snap and sna●l one at another striving which shall first seize upon the Bones of our Brothers Estate nay as the Spaniard 〈…〉 on the Indians we try co 〈…〉 ions which of us shall leave an impression of the Deepest scarre upon those poor Innocents we have enslaved Nay we whet our Tongues our Pens our Swords with as sharp an edg as Malice can set upon them one against another being not onely so far divided in opinion for point of Government that one crieth up Monarchy another Aristocracy a third Democracy but for Religion too a Religando saith the the Etymologist which should tye us not all jointly to God onely but every one severally to another and so binde up all our Spoiles universally in the Bundle of Life as the Corinthians of old professed of themselves that they were one of Paul another of Cephus every one of us like the sticks of a broken Fagot seemeth singula●ly and pertinaciously to stand up in the Defence of his own Fancied Religion one a Socinian another an Anabaprist another an Antinomian another an Arrian one a Separatist another an Anti-Scripturist one a Ranter another a Quaker another a Seeker yea indeed all upon the matter to seek for such a pure Religion as hath in it any the least power of Godliness Nay as the Antique French or rather as our selves their Apes so prone are wee every day to change the Habit of our whatever pretended Religion as that every Day we appear in a New Mode and Fashion And so what Tacitus sometimes of the Romans ubi Solitudinem faciunt Pacem appellant whil'st wee seem to interpret a mere Desolation and Annihilation of Religion for a Peaceable and Pure Settlement and Reformation thereof whilest thus I say wee assume unto our selves an un-commissioned and unbounded Liberty Nunc Leo nunc Vulpes of appearing every Day in a New Trim and Dress of Religion Nusquam qui ubique we have scarce any thing indeed of true Religion left amongst us Nay unto that sharpness of contention as Paul and Barnabas Act. 15. 39. are we grown in these cases that what Tacitus sometimes of Segestes and Ariminius the one the Father the other the Son in Law Quae apud concordos vincula charit●tis Incitamenta Irarum apud infensos sunt those Bonds of Christian Affinity which whilest wee accorded were a sweet meanes to tye us close together now wee Ravel and Flitter thus we finde to bee sad incentives and provocations to keep us at the greater Distance and Variance I would gladly season perhaps some of you that are here Present with better Principles then hitherto possibly may have been distilled into you You know the Rise of that old word Divide Impera Divide Affections once and you shall suddenly come to divide the spoil And therfore wo●ld I have you to follow Love and Peace with all Men that call upon the Name of the Lord 2 Tim. 2. 22. but so as to follow this Love and Peace in Truth Ephes. 4. 15. lest otherwise like that House in the Gospel founded upon the sand what ever superstruction you may Rear thereon come speedily to Ruine and Confusion Singularity and Humour and Turbulency of spirit whether in Opinion or Affection where-ever they are are far from being symboles of a Christian Temper Nay as they say of Bees that whensoever there ariseth stir and strife amongst them it is an infallible signe that their King is about to remove and to leave his H●ve however our Spiritual Can●ers may vant themselves as they please as they if had engrossed the great God of heaven for their own peculiar and as is that just Sarcasme upon the Fathers of the Trent Councel that they had the Holy Ghost every week sent them in a Cloak-bag had conjured and circumscribed him within the circle of their owne Tribe as long as by Schism by Faction by Division they break the Unity of the Spirit which should tye all ●he Members of Christs Body together in the Bond of Peace it is not onely a clear presage that the King of Heaven is upon the point of Leaving but too pregnant an evidence that hee hath actually left such unquiet and turbulent Conclaues and Conventicles The first visible shape that the Holy Ghost ever descended in was the shape of a Dove And hee that came in a Dove wil not come but upon a Dove Not such as through a singulat conceit of their Simulata sanctitas double-refined H●liness separate themselves from their despised brethren nor such as make a great stir and Noise in the world with the Lightning of Pride the Thunder of Blasphemy the Windes of Malediction and Depravation the Storms of Oppression and Sword of Persecution but such as are like himself D●ves Men of a Milde a Meek and Peaceable Temper and Disposition Nay Elect saith St. Peter to his scattered strangers according to the Fore knowledg of the Father through the sanctification of the Spirit and the sprinkling of the Bloud of Christ ● Pet. 2. 2. Where there is no appearance of the descent of the Holy Ghost upon a Man though not in the visible shape of a Dove yet as upon a Dove a Creature Gentle and Peaceable little Ground of Assurance shall any such have reason to take up that 〈◊〉 is predestinated Abraham in tha● his sacrifice to the Lo●● Gen. 15. divideth the Heifer the Shee-Goat and the Ram but the Turtle Dove and the Pigeon hee divideth not Carnal Men how spiritual soever our Novel selfe-justiciaries or rather New-modelled Pharisees may cry themselvs up for as are prone to be divided by Discords and Separations and Dissentions and so have no semblance of the Holy Ghost upon them have no Interest as not in the Predestination of the Father so neither in the Sons Redemption But the Birds the Pigeon and the Turtle Dove Creatures that have no Gall in them Spiritual Men such as are proper Rec●pracles of the Grace of the Holy Ghost of the Fathers Love in Electing and the Sonnes Wisdome in Redeeming them have no shadow or semblance of the least Inclination to Division in them The Kingdome of Heaven whereby in the stile of Scripture the Holy Ghost is intended and wherein that ever-blessed 〈◊〉 but an uni-Triumvirate an undivided Trinity in an unity of Divine Essence as a Glorious Monarch Reigneth the Apostle fitly mindeth us that it is first Righteousness and then Peace Rom. 14. 17. And then just reason may the same Apostle seem to have for the apposing of his Corinthians with this Poinant quaere As long as there are st●ifes and Divisions amongst you are you not Carnal 1 Cor. 3. 4. As long as we practice nothing but the Defrauding the Depraving the Spoiling the Murthering one another can wee ever hope to finde in our selves any pledg● 〈…〉 of the Holy Ghosts descent upon us Or of the Fathers Predestination or the Sons Redemption of us I shall take leave of you with the same leave that the same Apostle taketh of the same Corinthians of his 2 Cor. 13. 11. My Brethren bee of one Minde live in Peace and the God of Love and Peace shall bee with you Approve we our selvs ●n the presence of God and Man to bee peaceable spirits and then shall we sensibly find that those three that bear record in Heaven 1 Ioh. 5. 7. and sweetly accord in an unity of of Divine Essence shall jointly seal up unto us an Assurance of an Inheritance of 〈…〉 in Light that after the Earthly houses of our Tabernacle's dissolved wee shall have a Building of God an House not made with hands Eternal in the Heavens Which O Lord we beseech thee in thy good time grant every one of us and to this purpurpose grant that 〈◊〉 word which this Day we● have heard with our outward Eares may c. FINIS